Since Twitter's get lost 4:59 PM Feb 19th to 3/2/10 6:30 pm

marcsobel 

Wall Street and Vine: Hollywood's View of Business by Larry Ribstein http://bit.ly/clWQHi (abstract, has download link)44 minutes ago via bit.ly

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PA-Sen: Specter Leads Toomey In Latest Q-Pollhttp://bit.ly/9hJfN2 Pushed to the left Spector may win. Like Bennet ?about 1 hour ago via bit.ly

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Lawyers, Guns and Money: Our War Against Mickey Kaus http://bit.ly/9SUu5Z for the win.about 1 hour ago via bit.ly

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Very Scary Things http://nyti.ms/9vsjup Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum massive extinctions 6C temp rise, current BAU analysis 5C.about 2 hours ago via bit.ly

marcsobel 

Annals of Goldman Sachs client relations, Michael Lewis edition http://bit.ly/cJOUcA net: They will fuck you if they can.about 2 hours ago via bit.ly

marcsobel 

Udall & > 30 Senators showing bold leadership on the public option! go to say thanks http://bit.ly/8ZiOxH@BoldProgressiveabout 2 hours ago via web

marcsobel 

I just called my Senator: it's a critical week for a real#climatebill. Pls join me: http://bit.ly/cmSjCL (via @RepowerAmerica)about 8 hours ago via web

marcsobel 

The Bunning Effect http://bit.ly/bC45AY6:09 PM Mar 1st via bit.ly

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petition @Senate_GOPs & Jim Bunning: stop holding unemployed Americans hostage to your obstruction agendahttp://act.ly/1qo RT to sign #p25:56 PM Mar 1st via act.ly

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finished: The Elegance of the Hedgehoghttp://bit.ly/aueaP8 #booksread10:01 AM Mar 1st via bit.ly

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finished:The Age of Wonder http://bit.ly/ajHySx#booksread9:57 AM Mar 1st via bit.ly

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Finished: Some Things That Stay http://bit.ly/aeIiah#booksread9:54 AM Mar 1st via bit.ly

MarkUdall 

For help re: Chile earthquake, email ChileEarthquake@state.gov, or call 1-888-407-4747 #chilequake3:05 PM Feb 27th via web

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http://bit.ly/ao14oi What an honor for me today in Loveland to present WWII Veteran, Bill Dudley with ten military medals and decorations.3:03 PM Feb 27th via iPhone iGift4u

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In Fort Collins, meeting with CSU school leaders who are preparing students for agribusiness ind. that will grow jobs in CO rural areas.12:14 PM Feb 27th via iPhone iGift4u

marcsobel 

Atemporality for the Creative Artist http://bit.ly/9zhwtfBruce Sterling, very interesting.12:23 PM Feb 26th via bit.ly

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Judd Gregg on Reconciliation http://bit.ly/dhgbIP11:27 AM Feb 26th via bit.ly

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Our Plutocracy http://bit.ly/aPzVOG Top 400 Tax returns made more than Kentucky, paid taxes at half the pre-Bush rate8:47 AM Feb 26th via bit.ly

MarkUdall 

You can see my appearance on @MadMoneyOnCNBChere: http://bit.ly/aA7u3q #naturalgas3:01 PM Feb 25th via web

marcsobel 

Reconciliation Usage - Republicans 14, Democrats 5 with list of bills http://bit.ly/bqVd2c4:38 PM Feb 24th via bit.ly

MarkUdall 

If you missed me on @MadMoneyOnCNBC earlier, I'll be on in a few mins with more on the @pickensplan and the NAT GAS Act4:15 PM Feb 24th via web

marcsobel 

Today is the Virtual March for Health Care Reform! I'm marching - join me? http://www.moveon.org/r?r=86527&rc=vm.tweet3:58 PM Feb 24th via web

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Producerism - Right Wing Popularismhttp://bit.ly/akTxpe H/R digby http://bit.ly/cT0HQF White Christians are the only "producing" citizens10:30 AM Feb 24th via bit.ly

MarkUdall 

About to appear on @MadMoneyOnCNBC to discuss the @pickensplan and the NAT GAS Act with @JimJCramer10:11 AM Feb 24th via web

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Robert Gibbs: Public Option Via Reconciliation Can’t Pass Congress | The Plum Line http://bit.ly/9SPzCK3:52 PM Feb 23rd via bit.ly

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Social Control of Mothers http://bit.ly/bqapnk 5% of alcoholic women give birth to babies diagnosed with FAS3:48 PM Feb 23rd via bit.ly

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Dana Milbank love letter to Rahm http://bit.ly/b9WNs3What it means http://bit.ly/diu3yw H/TAtrios http://bit.ly/9hxTOy Is Rahm over ?8:18 AM Feb 23rd via bit.ly

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Federal Reserve policy has exhibited partisan bias in presidential election years http://bit.ly/d2Zymm3:33 PM Feb 22nd via bit.ly

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What if they ran the Zoo, (they actually did run the Zoo) http://bit.ly/9p8hF02:06 PM Feb 22nd via bit.ly

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RNC orders moderate Republicans "cooperate" with Obama as long as it leads to delay but vote no when it comes to action http://bit.ly/a9BaEA2:03 PM Feb 22nd via bit.ly

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"BIPARTISANSHIP" is not what Americans want -- give us a good bill with the public option. Tell Congress that.http://bit.ly/bbEB9h #p21:54 PM Feb 22nd via web

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How Paul Krugman found politics : The New Yorkerhttp://bit.ly/93Cr799:32 AM Feb 22nd via bit.ly

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Better live in Sweden than in the US: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better http://bit.ly/cuJnsH9:01 AM Feb 22nd via bit.ly

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About the guy who let the torture lawyers off the hook David Margolis http://bit.ly/959WZk Fox guarding the henhouse8:58 PM Feb 21st via bit.ly

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William Frank Buckley, Sr. Texan descended from Canadian Irish http://bit.ly/chfpNs Explanation for http://bit.ly/aEZsFf?11:19 AM Feb 21st via bit.ly

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Price changes, not utilization, made up 80 % of growth in Massachusetts’ health spending (06 - 09) http://bit.ly/9zjYhFMonopolies bitch!11:16 AM Feb 21st via bit.ly

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Occasional Blog: Selections from the Roots of Modern Conservatism http://bit.ly/a3B5Bj Conservatism doesn't change, only its target victims7:44 AM Feb 21st via bit.ly

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Rowling's being sued for plagiarism againhttp://bit.ly/9Rq4FF Analysis of the case by a real live book editor2:30 PM Feb 20th via bit.ly

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Fig 1 Federal Spending by State Per Dollar of Federal Taxes Fiscal Year 2004 http://bit.ly/9tm44Q From the tax foundation so may be suspect6:32 PM Feb 19th via bit.ly

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Krugman thinks Bernanke may be leading us into a Japanese style lost decade http://nyti.ms/aQjJnX Of course Krugman is always wrong.4:59 PM Feb 19th via bit.ly

Selections from the Roots of Modern Conservatism

Matthew Yglesias reminds us that those who do not learn from History get to reinvent it on Fox.  In particular, the Sharon Statement which he explains in the historical context is about keeping the Negro in his place.  He mentions but doesn't link to a probable William F'Buckley editorial "The South Must Prevail".  I was interested in  reading it and The Google gave a bunch of references almost all of which were progressive or academic. I hadn't read Buckley in a long time.  He has a style which come across in his interviews which I recognized immediately,  David Brooks. It's "I'm so rational and more intelligent and educated than you are that my argument is obviously correct."  Also known as the Emperor's New Clothes.  Like Brooks, Buckley buries a hateful opinion masquerading as a fact among a slew of gracefully written facts.  In this case after talking about the Senate limiting the right of Southerners to suppress "Negro" voting he says

The central question that emerges-and it is not

a parliamentary question or a question that is

answered by merely consulting a catalogue of the

rights of American citizens, born Equal-is whether

the White community in the South is entitled to take

such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically

and culturally, in areas in which it does not pre-

dominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes

-the White community is so entitled because, for

the time being, it is the advanced race . It is not easy,

and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing

the median cultural superiority of White over Negro :

but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be

hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropolo-

gists .

Like Brooks, he often leaves little breadcrumb trails to his basic beliefs in this case:

It is more important for

any community, anywhere in the world, to affirm and

live by civilized standards, than to bow to the de-

mands of the numerical majority .

It get's better:  

Sometimes it be-

comes impossible to assert the will of a minority,

in which case it must give way, and the society will

regress ; sometimes the numerical minority cannot

prevail except by violence : then it must determine

whether the prevalence of its will is worth the ter-

rible price of violence .

Good stuff, right up with the Teabaggers.

Matthew makes the point that the same rhetoric is being used today but the context is hatred of teh gay not teh Negro.